Because it shows how we are being manipulated.
Do we seek to manipulate the window for our ends? That would be to reduce our actions down to human manipulation. We do what God leads us to do.
Overton window
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For the Glenn Beck novel, see The Overton Window.
The Overton window is the range of ideas the public will accept. It is used by media pundits[1][2] and particularly favored in conservative and libertarian-leaning discourse.[3][4] The term derives from its originator, Joseph P. Overton (1960–2003),[5] a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy,[6] who in his description of his eponymous window claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within it, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[7] According to Overton's description, his window includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office.
Contents [hide]
1 Overview
2 Historical precedents
3 In popular culture
Overview[edit]
Overton Window diagram.svg
Overton described a spectrum from "more free" to "less free" with regard to government intervention, oriented vertically on an axis. As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location may become more or less politically acceptable.
His degrees of acceptance[8] of public ideas are roughly:
Unthinkable
Radical
Acceptable
Sensible
Popular
Policy
The Overton window is an approach to identifying which ideas define the domain of acceptability within a democratic republic's possible governmental policies. Proponents of policies outside the window seek to persuade or educate the public in order to move and/or expand the window. Proponents of current policies, or similar ones, within the window seek to convince people that policies outside it should be deemed unacceptable.
After Overton's death, others have examined the concept of adjusting the window by the deliberate promotion of ideas outside of it, or "outer fringe" ideas, with the intention of making less fringe ideas acceptable by comparison.[9] The "door-in-the-face" technique of persuasion is similar.
Historical precedents[edit]
An idea similar to the Overton window was expressed by Anthony Trollope in 1868 in his novel Phineas Finn:
"Many who before regarded legislation on the subject as chimerical, will now fancy that it is only dangerous, or perhaps not more than difficult. And so in time it will come to be looked on as among the things possible, then among the things probable;–and so at last it will be ranged in the list of those few measures which the country requires as being absolutely needed. That is the way in which public opinion is made."
"It is no loss of time," said Phineas, "to have taken the first great step in making it."
"The first great step was taken long ago," said Mr. Monk,–"taken by men who were looked upon as revolutionary demagogues, almost as traitors, because they took it. But it is a great thing to take any step that leads us onwards."
In his "West India Emancipation" speech at Canandaigua, New York, in 1857,[10] abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass described how public opinion limits the ability of those in power to act with impunity:
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
In popular culture[edit]
The novel Boomsday applies the Overton window to the subject of Social Security reform in the United States. The technique used was to agitate for "voluntary transitioning", that is, suicide at a certain age in exchange for benefits, as a method of reducing the cost of Social Security. Ultimately, the stated goal was for a more modest result of reducing the burden that it was claimed was imposed on younger people for the costs of Social Security.
In 2010, conservative talk-show host and columnist Glenn Beck published a novel titled The Overton Window.[11]
Alternative voices
RED ICE RADIO from whence this subject came
The Views of this Programme are not the complete answer. The Complete answer is for all the world to "Catch" to "internally see" the independent self delusion
This is as applicable to whites as it is to blacks as it is to South Americans and Asians.
These people juxtapose their pagan natural belief systems to Christianity, by which they mostly mean heirarchical Christianity.
WHAT THEY ARE CLEAR ON is that we are beingMASS MINDCONTROLLED to take up positions which usher in Global Government for a few.....to switch us all off and passively let it happen.
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